Swimming at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships – Men's 1500 metre freestyle

Men's 1500 metre freestyle at the 2016 European Aquatics Championships
Dates	17–18 May
Competitors	35 from 21 nations
Winning time	14:34.04
Medalists
Gregorio Paltrinieri    Italy   Gabriele Detti    Italy   Mykhailo Romanchuk    Ukraine
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The routine competition of the 2016 European Aquatics Championships was held on 17 and 18 May 2016. ^{[1] [2]}

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world, European and championship records were as follows.

	Name	Nation	Time	Location	Date
World record	Sun Yang	China	14:31.02	London	4 August 2012
European record	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy	14:39.67	Kazan	8 August 2015
Championship record	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy	14:39.93	Berlin	20 August 2014

Results

Heats

The heats were held on 17 May at 11:29. ^[3]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	4	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy	14:46.81	Q
2	3	4	Gabriele Detti	Italy	14:58.56	Q
3	3	2	Jan Micka	Czech Republic	14:58.62	Q
4	4	6	Mykhailo Romanchuk	Ukraine	14:59.13	Q
5	4	5	Henrik Christiansen	Norway	15:00.27	Q
6	4	7	Serhiy Frolov	Ukraine	15:02.33	Q
7	3	5	Gergely Gyurta	Hungary	15:05.34	Q
8	3	1	Wojciech Wojdak	Poland	15:06.56	Q
9	4	0	Joris Bouchaut	France	15:07.41
10	4	9	Antonio Arroyo	Spain	15:07.71
11	4	1	Ruwen Straub	Germany	15:08.11
12	3	3	Timothy Shuttleworth	Great Britain	15:08.84
13	4	2	Daniel Jervis	Great Britain	15:09.69
14	4	3	Stephen Milne	Great Britain	15:09.73
15	3	0	Marc Sánchez	Spain	15:10.06
16	3	9	Kristóf Rasovszky	Hungary	15:11.34
17	3	8	Anton Ipsen	Denmark	15:11.91
18	3	7	Richárd Nagy	Slovakia	15:16.17
19	2	1	Nezir Karap	Turkey	15:16.29
20	3	6	Pál Joensen	Faroe Islands	15:16.44
21	2	4	Martin Bau	Slovenia	15:16.71
22	2	3	Marc Hinawi	Israel	15:19.28
23	2	7	Victor Johansson	Sweden	15:20.44
24	2	2	Filip Zaborowski	Poland	15:20.68
25	4	8	Nicolas D'Oriano	France	15:25.80
26	2	5	Lander Hendrickx	Belgium	15:25.90
27	2	6	Vuk Čelić	Serbia	15:31.65
28	2	9	Ediz Yıldırımer	Turkey	15:34.16
29	1	4	Truls Wigdel	Norway	15:36.78
30	1	3	Roman Dmitriyev	Czech Republic	15:36.81
31	1	5	Grega Popović	Slovenia	15:41.01
32	2	8	Ján Kútnik	Czech Republic	15:50.53
33	2	0	Oli Mortensen	Faroe Islands	16:24.42
34	1	2	Franc Aleksi	Albania	16:36.10
35	1	6	Andrej Stojanoski	Macedonia	17:24.96

Final

The final was held on 18 May at 18:02. ^[4]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	4	Gregorio Paltrinieri	Italy	14:34.04	ER, CR
	5	Gabriele Detti	Italy	14:48.75
	6	Mykhailo Romanchuk	Ukraine	14:50.33
4	1	Gergely Gyurta	Hungary	14:57.06
5	3	Jan Micka	Czech Republic	14:58.73
6	8	Wojciech Wojdak	Poland	14:59.66
7	2	Henrik Christiansen	Norway	15:04.60
8	7	Serhiy Frolov	Ukraine	15:05.05

References

1. Entry list
2. Start list
3. Heats results
4. Final results